His next film, “A.I.,” was to be about Artificial Intelligence, where he presumably would have taken the concept to the limit.) It is these sequences that the “Rosemary’s Baby” influence plays prominently-the group is a shadowy one made up of possibly high-level people in places of power, performing occultist pagan sex rituals like the ancients. (Throughout the film, Kubrick is clearly pointing us towards the symbols of sight-glasses, mirrors, masks-to teach us something about perception and reality. The orgy scenes reminded me of “Fellini’s Satyricon”, with the masks of all showing different emotions and hiding the human faces. His earliest attempts to dabble with other women that night fail and the adventure is culminated when he sneaks into a secret gathering of debauchery. The information sends Bill on an odyssey of the sexual underworld. That doesn’t deter Alice from hatefully recounting every step of a wished affair during their last vacation. His actions up to this point indicate that he is a caring and loving husband and not nearly so detached as to need a lesson. Bill Harford ( Tom Cruise) about the fantasy lives of women like he was a wet-behind-the-ears child who doesn’t understand sexual desire. After an evening of pot smoking, art curator Alice ( Nicole Kidman) rambles on to her husband Dr. The storyline is simply about sexual jealousy and obsession and is very simply played out. (There is a bit of “North by Northwest” too but I do not want to taint that terrific film with the likes of “Eyes”.) It is sexually adventuresome and frank like “Last Tango”, but doesn’t manage to tell us why it is being so. The finished product is parts “Last Tango in Paris” and “Rosemary’s Baby”. Tom Cruise vowed to fight any further editing by the studio. It obligated him to turn in an “R-rated” film but the MPA thought the sexual material too graphic to give it anything below NC-17. It was found that at the time of his death, Kubrick had finished the final edit, but the next hurdle would be the Warner Bros. Its principal players saw Harvey Keitel’s scenes axed and Jennifer Jason Leigh replaced altogether by Marie Richardson. From the beginning of filming, the director shrouded the project in secrecy and it remained so throughout its estimated 362-day shoot. When Stanley Kubrick passed away in March of ’99, the fate of his new film, “Eyes Wide Shut”, was unknown. Producer: Hobby Films, Pole Star, Stanley Kubrick Productions, Warner Bros. ![]() Cook, Leon Vitali, Carmela Marner, Fay Masterson, Phil Davies, Cindy Dolenc, Clark Hayes, Treva Etienne, Colin Angus, Karla Ashley, Kathryn Charman, James Demaria, Anthony Desergio, Janie Dickens, Laura Fallace, Vanessa Fenton, Georgina Finch, Peter Godwin, Joanna Heath, Lee Henshaw, Ateeka Poole, Adam Pudney, Sharon Quinn, Ben De Sausmarez, Emma Lou Sharratt, Paul Spelling, Matthew Thompson, Dan Travers, Russell Trigg, Kate Whalin, Emilio D'Alessandro, Donna Ewin, Tres Hanley, Alex Hobbs, Christiane Kubrick, Katharina Kubrick, Kurt Leitner, Taylor Murphy Leslie Lowe, Peter Benson, Todd Field, Michael Doven, Sky Dumont, Louise Taylor, Stewart Thorndike, Randall Paul, Julienne Davis, Lisa Leone, Kevin Connealy, Marie Richardson, Thomas Gibson, Mariana Hewett, Dan Rollman, Gavin Parry, Chris Pare, Adam Lias, Christian Clarke, Kyle Whitcombe, Gary Goba, Florian Windorfer, Rade Sherbedgia, Togo Igawa, Eiji Kusuhara, Leelee Sobieski, Sam Douglas, Angus MacInnes, Abigail Good, Brian W.
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